Don’t you just love little tips that make you say “How did I not know that?!”? Small incremental improvements are the way that you inch towards mastery of a topic. Every day I learn little things about web development that as a whole make me much better at my job.

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Look, you don't need us to tell you that React Native exists. You probably don't need us to tell you that it's great or how much more productive it can make native mobile development. What you might need us to tell you is that when you go looking for educational resources around React Native, the simple official Getting Started guide should be your first stop. Don't go digging for some overcomplicated Webpack/Babel guide. Following this guide with the latest version of Node will give you everything you need for a contemporary dev experience without all the headaches.

Friend and colleague Brian Joseph has set out to create a tool that transpiles Elixir into JavaScript. While practical usage is pretty limited thus, we think that's awesome. There's a nice list of GitHub Issues there just dying for outside contributors. Ready to try your hand at writing a compiler?